Will this work for F#?
Readit Newssnth commented on .NET 7 introduces Native AOT devblogs.microsoft.com/do... · Posted by u/DeathArrow
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Jesus- a subscription fee for a Markdown editor?
snth commented on DuckDuckGo “down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation” twitter.com/yegg/status/1... · Posted by u/thallium205
>Should I simply accept that this site is the correct top result for my users' queries,
Yes, your users aren't using your search engine as an oracle for the truth, they're using it to find pages with similar text. It's their job (and specifically not yours) to determine how well the text they find corresponds with reality. Perhaps they're even aware the site is factually incorrect and enjoy reading it for the novelty, perhaps they want to cite it to warn others that sometimes things online are wrong. You have no idea what the people are doing with the information.
Google has started censoring their results because they decided people should use their search engine as a truth oracle (with the results you would expect, lets not forget the "when did George Washington go to the moon" thing from a year or so ago.) I think that's a mistake and is a large part of the reason I use DuckDuckGo.
You may have caught this one instance but there are likely an unlimited number of others. You're not going to catch everything and you make your search engine worse with every exception you make to the algorithm.
Your view is completely opposed to all of the recent "Google search is totally broken due to garbage SEO sites" HN articles.
snth commented on On the removal of Come Back Alive blog.patreon.com/on-the-r... · Posted by u/evvvvr
No, that's obviously not what I'm saying.
I'm glad, and I shouldn't try to pigeonhole you here either, I just think these types of conversations lose specificity quickly.
Person A: I'm doing <this thing> to support <cause> Person B: You shouldn't do <that thing> Person A (or more often, C): Inaction is equal to support / silence is violence
I think there is almost always more than one possible action, even in support of <cause>. Also, some well intentioned actions can hurt a cause, so inaction is obviously preferable. Or, there may be a third outcome that I like better than <cause> or <not cause>.
Let me get specific, to avoid my own criticism.
I don't know if what the original commenter is doing is worth the effort, in terms of supporting Ukraine in this conflict. There's obviously a cost, in terms of dev time and false positives (showing the message to an unintended audience). I do think it is usually annoying, distracting, and unnecessarily polarizing to add politics to technical projects, so I would lean against doing this, even if I agree with the politics. Good technical work is hard enough on its own.
I'm not terribly offended by this action, and I wouldn't criticize it on its own; but I definitely think that "inaction supports the Russian invasion" is out of line here.
snth commented on On the removal of Come Back Alive blog.patreon.com/on-the-r... · Posted by u/evvvvr
And sometimes only one choice exists. This is such a time.
No, it isn't. The comment we're replying to here is about someone adding a message to their code repo that's shown to Russian viewers. Are you saying that if people don't do this, they support the Russian invasion? It seems pretty obvious when you get specific. It's simpleminded to divide people into two groups and say that anyone who doesn't agree with a _particular action_ is the enemy.
snth commented on On the removal of Come Back Alive blog.patreon.com/on-the-r... · Posted by u/evvvvr
Your comment was flagged, i vouched for it so i can downvote and rebuke.
No. Inaction is equal to support of the Russian invasion ( like in so many other cases). People have to decide for themselves what they want, where their morals lie, and how they want to act on that. Message of support? Donation? Whatever. Ignoring the problem only helps the war criminals. Don't critique people for daring to speak and act against war crimes just because you're deciding for yourself to ignore them.
> Inaction is equal to support of the Russian invasion
No, no it isn't, in this or in other situations. More than two choices _usually_ exist. Statements like this present a false dichotomy in an attempt to coerce people to support a preferred position or interpretation.
snth commented on Things you notice when you quit the news (2016) raptitude.com/2016/12/fiv... · Posted by u/abixb
If you like to understand things, understanding things is its own reward.
However, there is also voting.
Understand things like, "what is in shampoo", to take an example from the article? I like to understand things too, but there there's plenty of things to learn, and I think one can benefit from being choosy.
What I hate about "car discourse" like this is the apparent blindness to public transportation. Trains, bikes, buses, and street cars solve almost every problem that the author complains about.
The only outstanding problem, however, is that American infrastructure has been deliberately designed solely around the car. Those who suggest alternative modes of public transportation are immediately written off as "impractical". Discourse ought to be centered around democratizing and diversifying the ways people can get around, not on how one ought to "make dumb cars".
I wish America had more bikeable cities and better public transport too, but I don't see what that has to do with the linked article. I would also really like a dumbcar.
snth commented on Poll: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high paying remote job? · Posted by u/throwawaynay
> It's just as easy to argue that leetcode-style interviews are because companies are afraid of being discriminatory in hiring
From the hiring side, this is 100% correct. Giving everyone the same coding interview is one of the most effective ways to remove interviewer bias.
A lot of HN commenters advocate for a “just trust me” hiring process where they want the interviewer to just read their resume and have a quick chat to decide if the person should be hired, without any type of technical interview. That results in people hiring other people who are as similar to their own backgrounds as possible (everyone likes to think their own background and learning style is optimal).
We know LeetCode style tests aren’t perfect, but they’re repeatable and the study material is free and widely available.
> or give take home work (because it's discriminatory against people with time constraints)
IMO, this complaint is baseless. A lot of companies give the option of LeetCode style interviews or take-homes and almost everybody chooses the take-home.
The idea that someone can allocate several hours during their busy day for a live interview but somehow can’t find several hours during the week for a take-home doesn’t even make logical sense.
> The idea that someone can allocate several hours during their busy day for a live interview but somehow can’t find several hours during the week for a take-home doesn’t even make logical sense.
I personally like take-home problems. It's hard for an employer to time-box them without resorting to basically leetcode though. I know that, as a student, I definitely spent many hours on them.